{"id":62,"date":"2015-09-10T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/2015\/09\/10\/breaking-bad-habits\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:14:08","slug":"breaking-bad-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/breaking-bad-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Bad (habits)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fV1CU7eGktc\/VFKbs1hZspI\/AAAAAAAAAaM\/QLXDAQcsTLc\/s1600\/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-10-30%2Bat%2B16.12.02.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen2BShot2B2014-10-302Bat2B16.12.02.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Have you ever struggled to give up a bad habit? Something you knew was unhelpful, unproductive but it was just so easy to slip back into despite knowing many reasons why you shouldn&#8217;t be? Your presentation style is probably the same and these are the common excuses for not changing:<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">I&#8217;m going to reduce the number of bulletpoints<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">I need some bulletpoints<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">I don&#8217;t have time to plan like that<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">I&#8217;m only going to use it as a prompt rather than a script<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">It&#8217;s what the audience expect<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">NEXT time, when I have more chance<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Not this time, it&#8217;s an important meeting<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">I don&#8217;t have time to practise<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">You just don&#8217;t understand how hard this is.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">These are excuses, not reasons. 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